Twitter upgrade tears down service
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Twitter warned users that a failed upgrade Monday night has left the site unusable for many.
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Twitter warned users that a failed upgrade Monday night has left the site unusable for many.
The problem began past 8 p.m. PDT, the company said, and might last for hours. "Our infrastructure and operations engineers are currently working to resolve this. The site could be down until approximately 3 a.m. PDT," company spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said. The Twitter status page blamed the problem on "the failed enhancement of a new approach to timeline caching."
Signs of problems included the infamous "failwhale" image indicating problems, another image signifying "Something is technically wrong," missing or late tweets, duplicate tweets, and a Web page that didn't work at times.
For more on this story, read Twitter whacked by hours-long problems on CNET News.
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Why didn't they test this on a non-production server first to see if it would work? Or at least have a backup server ready in case of this failure and just switch over in the event of failure? Sounds like a planning oversight...
What's with the shopping link on the discussion board? Like I'm going to buy anything from this...
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